Whiting Award Honors Hansol Jung

Whiting Award Hansol JungTonight the Whiting Foundation announced the 10 winners of its 2018 Whiting Awards at a ceremony at the New-York Historical Society, with a keynote by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison.

The awards recognize emerging writers of novels, non-fiction, poetry, and theatre. Playwrights honored this year include Nathan Alan Davis (Nat Turner in Jerusalem, Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea), cited by Whiting for his “uncanny gift for allegory and language, boiling down the large narratives of the African-American past to the scale of individuals wrestling to express themselves”; Hansol Jung(Among the Dead, Cardboard Piano), whose plays are said to “knit together the agonies of Korean history, the restless excitement and anxiety of the tech age, and the shapes of loss and longing”; and Antoinette Nwandu (Pass Over, Breach), whose “blistering interrogations of race, power, and violence range from symbolic to highly naturalistic works.”

Hansol Jung is a playwright and director from South Korea. Her productions include Cardboard Piano, Among the Dead, No More Sad Things, Wolf Play, and Wild Goose Dreams. Her work has been developed at the Royal Court, New York Theatre Workshop, Berkeley Repertory’s Ground Floor, and more. She is the recipient of the P73 Playwright Fellowship, Rita Goldberg Playwrights’ Workshop Fellowship at the Lark, 2050 Fellowship at New York Theatre Workshop, and others. Jung has translated over thirty English musicals into Korean. She holds a Playwriting MFA from the Yale School of Drama and is a member of the Ma-Yi Theatre Writers Lab.

 

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